CD4+ T cells in cancer

DE Speiser, O Chijioke, K Schaeuble, C Münz - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy are driving forces of research and development in
oncology, mostly focusing on CD8+ T cells and the tumor microenvironment. Recent …

The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial

AJ Korman, SC Garrett-Thomson… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunity, and the potential for cancer immunotherapy, have been topics of scientific
discussion and experimentation for over a hundred years. Several successful cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic CD8+ T cell responses to cancer immunotherapy in human regional lymph nodes are disrupted in metastatic lymph nodes

MK Rahim, TLH Okholm, KB Jones, EE McCarthy… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CD8+ T cell responses are critical for anti-tumor immunity. While extensively profiled in the
tumor microenvironment, recent studies in mice identified responses in lymph nodes (LNs) …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer

B Liu, X Hu, K Feng, R Gao, Z Xue, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-PD-1 treatment has shown unprecedented clinical success in the treatment of non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood …

PD-1 combination therapy with IL-2 modifies CD8+ T cell exhaustion program

M Hashimoto, K Araki, MA Cardenas, P Li, RR Jadhav… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Combination therapy with PD-1 blockade and IL-2 is highly effective during chronic
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. Here we examine the underlying basis for this …

[HTML][HTML] T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

[HTML][HTML] Interleukins in cancer: from biology to therapy

D Briukhovetska, J Dörr, S Endres, P Libby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interleukins and associated cytokines serve as the means of communication for innate and
adaptive immune cells as well as non-immune cells and tissues. Thus, interleukins have a …

Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion

JA Belk, B Daniel, AT Satpathy - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen stimulation during viral infections and cancer can lead to T cell exhaustion,
which is characterized by reduced effector function and proliferation, and the expression of …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence

JA Belk, W Yao, N Ly, KA Freitas, YT Chen, Q Shi… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
T cell exhaustion limits antitumor immunity, but the molecular determinants of this process
remain poorly understood. Using a chronic stimulation assay, we performed genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

A Sette, S Crotty - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The adaptive immune system is important for control of most viral infections. The three
fundamental components of the adaptive immune system are B cells (the source of …